Name: Aran'shei
Alignment: Change, The Afterlife, Desire
Plane: Arashai
Symbol: An empty throne.
Manifestation: The god is formless and spirit and so ordinarily has no physical form, but when he chooses to manifest in a body for whatever reason he usually appears as a divinely beautiful black-haired and golden-eyed youth.
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The Lord of Changes, the god, Aran'shei. He is the one who gives and takes away power, and changes the fate of those be they gods or men whom he chooses to favour. As the Lord of Souls, it is he who rules the souls of the departed and the deepest desires of mortals, who come unto him in his aspect of the Lord of Changes seeking release from the unrelenting strictures of fate. Father of the god Baase, and goddess Heshan (forming a nice triad). While Baase is directly associated with necromancy, being the god who directs the soul to its fate an cuts the thread of life, and to whom necromancers must appeal to raise an undead servant, or bind a soul for a time to the living world, Aran'shei himself also is associated with the undead for to the consternation of his son those he denies an afterlife are indubitably bound to wander the waking world as shades, envious of and hostile to the living and the peaceful dead alike.
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ooc: To clarify on the alignments....
Desire = peoples deepest wants and needs, most specifically their desire for change of any sort and lust for power.
Change = Changes of fate, and radical transitions. Ergo distinct from cyclical changes and repetitions (a portfolio that is already claimed). This deity can change that which is otherwise preordained and violate/overturn the natural order in his actions.
The Afterlife = The death god kills them, and sends them unto Aran'shei, who has rulership over the souls of the departed and determines what happens to them be it denying them an afterlife (behold the wandering shade) sending them to the reincarnation god, to heavens or hells, binding them to his will, or changing the fates of those in his favour and restoring them to life (and potentially making them functionally immortal if he keeps resurrecting them over and over again, although that would be a curse as much as a blessing).